Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-15
WILLIAM n. SANFORD ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS HIS saR HAMLET.
The Regular Business OF the Interstate
Commission TO b. Resumed Tomorrow.
A MILLION DOLLAR ATTAINMENT SUIT
AGAINST THE WESTERN UNION.
Death of Justice Wood Of the United
States Supreme Oours.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENTISEL.l
A Remarkable Voluntary state.
ment.

ment.
New YORK, May Thames f. Tay-
lor, who, together with Henry B..
Chamberlin, was arrested for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Margaret Ernest in New
Haven, has made a detailed COMES
sion in writing. He charges Chamber
lin with having persuaded him to
assist in the robbing OF Mrs. Ernest,
and also with being the leader through
out the robbery and murder. A re-
markable point connected with the
confession is, that Chamberlin fully
indorses it in the following voluntary
statement: 81, Henry B. Chamber
lin, have heard read the annexed
statement made by James F. Taylor.
/ am the person mentioned as Henry
Clark, and corroborate it in every de-
tail as true. HENRY B. CHAMBERLIN."
Indictments charging him with muir
der were found to-day.
shot His Son by Mistake.
WASHINGTON, May IA VIM. H.
Sanford accidentally shot his son
Hamlet last night. They were spend
ing the night in q house on Mr.. San
ford's farm near this city, and the boy,
in a somnambulistic spell, got up and
went out into the yard. The father
woke up, and believing that burglars,
who had frequently troubled him be-
fore, were in the yard, went to open
the door, when he saw, but did not
recognize, his own boy. Asking three
times who was there, and getting no
answer, save come on Dick" ad-
dressed by his boy to his dog, which
| was understood by the father as a Ell
to an accomplice, he then fired, killing
the boy instantly.
An Extensive swindIing scheme.
New YORK, May 14.-Advices from
Havana, under date of the 9th inst,
say, regarding the announcement that
| the storekeeper OF the Almacenas de-
| positors' warehouse had absconded
| with a large amount of money, that it
| has been learned that a great swindling
scheme, consisting of the pledging OF
sugar, chiefly of the Cardenas refinery,
| an imaginary concern, has been car
ried on for some time past. The swim
die was conducted in Havana by a
storekeeper, and it is stated, that he
fraudulently obtained from different
firms here, including one bank, from
$3.50 900 to 100000.
Ten Thousand wOrkmen Idle.
CHICAGO, May 14.-To-night all the
building operations under the control
OF the contractors who are members o.
the Master Masons' Association Of
Chicago, were shut down, so far as the
bricklayers and some masons are con.
cerned. 1t is estimated that fully ten
thousand workmen are 10y idle in the
building trades of this city, as the re-
suit of strikes or lockouts. The North
Side Brick Manufacturers Association
at a meeting to-day, decided to shut
down on Wednesday. They employ
1,600 men, and this force will then be
added to the idle army OF 10000.
Washington Items.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-Judge Coo
ley, Chairman of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, arrived this
morning. Commissioners Walker,
SHOEMAKER, Bragg and Morrison are
expected to return by Monday, when
regular business will be resumed.
Yesterday afternoon, on invitation
of Mrs. General Logan, the Regent OF
the Mount Vernon Association, the
President and Mrs. Cleveland, and a
few other invited guests, went to
Mount Vernon on the steamer Corco-
ran. General and Mrs. Sheridan and
Mrs. Folsom were among the guests.
Heavy suit Against the Western
Union.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 14.-An at
tachment in a suit for one million
dollars, brought by Clinton j. Far
rell, receiver of the Bankers and Mer-
chants Telegraph Company, was
served upon the local officer of the
Western Uuion to-day. The suit is
for damages caused by the cutting OF
the Bankers and Merchants wires in
July, 1885, by the agents of the
Western Union.
Pleaded Not Guilty.
New YORK, May IA. = James
Learney, the lawyer, surrendered him
self to the authorities to-day. He
pleaded not guilty to the charge of
forgery, on which d warrant wal out
for his arrest. He is said to have de-
frauded various persons out of $780,
900.
Death Of Jnstice Wood.
WASHINGTON, May IA. = Justice
Wood, OF the United States Supreme
Court, died a few minutes after II
O'Clock to-day.
Assigned.
New York, May l4--Joburg &